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Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, suggested that the existing power split between the traditionalists and Anglo-Indians may diminish the influence of Nehru's successor. Because Shastri embraces Indian tradition, he is not unanimously supported by the rest of the government and party. Presently, the stronger influence upon the Indian people decidedly is Western, rather than traditional: to be Westernized is a status symbol...
Taking note of warnings that giving suspects such a right to counsel would greatly diminish the number of confessions obtained by police between arrest and formal indictment, Justice Goldberg, who wrote the five-man majority opinion, said, "This argument cuts two ways. The fact that many confessions are obtained during this period points up its critical nature at a stage when legal aid and advice are surely needed." Law enforcement "which comes to depend on the confession," declared Justice Goldberg, "will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic...
They said their presence would have been "incongrnous" with the appearance of Schneider's band, but they were also reportedly worried that their numbers might diminish...
...British." Makarios smilingly denies Kuchuk's indictment, but does concede that he always had a number of "objections and strong misgivings" about the constitution he signed in 1959. Last November he sent to all interested parties 13 proposals for amending the constitution. Since the amendments would obviously diminish the influence of Turkish Cypriots, the government of Turkey at once rejected them, and both factions on the island took out their guns, oiled and cleaned them, and began the shooting that the U.N. is now trying to stop...
...economy, and the Pentagon has sent Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Barber barnstorming the nation to prod management. Said Barber to a group of defense industry executives in Boston last week: "What you have got to face is that the markets you're in are going to diminish, and that you've got to create new products...